S: Lots of boozy apples for sure. Pretty much pure spirits, maybe a little caramel sweetness in there too?

T: Whoa. Heavy on the barrel aging for sure. Huge amounts of apple brandy up front. Sharp booziness. Totally obliterates the base beer, at least in the beginning. In the middle, there is some of that dry, biscuity, crackery-type malt. Hints of grassy hops and some grapefruit as well in the finish. Not much, the aging has pretty much snuffed them out. Lingering drying crackers and a little apple in the aftertaste.

O: Very unique beer. Not many (if any) calvados-aged DIPAs on the market. This has clearly spent extensive time in barrels and honestly I'm not sure if it improves the base beer. The hoppiness is almost completely gone, and the brandy covers up much of the base beer as well. Honestly, I still liked it, even though it's a completely different beer (I would never even begin to suspect that My Antonia is the base beer if I had this blind). Nice brandy flavor that melds surprisingly well despite the strength of the barrel treatment. (1,270 characters)

Comes in a lovely little grenade looking bottle and pours a golden bronze hue with a one finger head and nice clingy lacing everywhere,on smell the calvados is very dominant with booze,apples,fruit punch and toffee filling the background,the mouthfeel is medium bodied and well carbonated with tastes of sticky toffee,fruit punch,calvados,oak,boozy alcohol and finished with a warming apple pie dryness and overall I like it the calvados makes itself well known and maybe a little less ageing would be nice to see in future as the base beer is hidden abit too much cheers. (572 characters)

The beer pours a well carbonated, tarnished copper color with a thin, yet dense, off-white head that laces. The nose is caramel covered apples and some underlying spice. I can't detect any hops... which is unfortunate if this is truly an IPA (as the label declares). However, as expected, the beer tastes sticky sweet with a big apple & spice presence, smoothed out from the barrel, followed by a lingering cinnamon-like bite and slightly tart finish. Once again, not getting much from the hops...The beer reminds me (to an extent) of CL's golden delicious in both sweetness and body (both solidly medium bodied). Frankly, there is almost no booze, in the nose/taste/mouthfeel, which is impressive for an 11.2%abv barrel aged beer. It drinks like a dessert beer/evening sipper. I'd probably recommend it to others, but make sure they're by no means expecting a DIPA (952 characters)